Early America
Moving West
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Imperialism
100
The first permanent English colony in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
100
The belief that God has given Americans the right to own the whole continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This made making steel much easier and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Process?
100
The book that exposed the terribly unhealthy meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
100
The sinking of this ship started the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
200
The imaginary line that blocked colonists from moving past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
200
The area that produced the conflict known as the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
200
The political machine in charge of New York.
What is Tammany Hall?
200
The muckraker that exposed Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
200
This type of journalism exaggerated the start of the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
People that worked to help build the first colonies like Jamestown.
What are indentured servants?
300
The main reason why the open range was closed off.
What is barbed wire?
300
Name two major labor unions from the Gilded Age.
What is the AFL and KoL?
300
The three Progressive Era presidents.
Who are Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
300
Name three territories taken from the Spanish in 1898.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
400
These were too weak, since the central government was not strong enough.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
Three future states that the US took from Mexico.
What are California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona?
400
Name three major entrepreneurs from this time.
Who are Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt, etc.?
400
The name for Teddy's plan to help everyone increase their prosperity.
What is the Square Deal?
400
The policy where every country could trade with China whenever/wherever they wanted.
What is Open Door Policy?
500
This person was the major reason why news of the Boston Massacre spread throughout the colonies.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
Two Indian leaders in the West who fought against the US military.
Who are Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, or Geronimo?
500
The leader of the Populist movement
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
Teddy's new political party he created after he became mad at Taft for going after EVERY trust, not just the big and bad ones.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
500
The idea that each foreign power had its own area in China. The US was left out.
What are Spheres of Influence?
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